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sophia_sol) wrote2015-05-29 02:10 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2015-05-29 02:10 pm
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Mad Max: Fury Road
I'm sure you've seen all the rave reviews about Mad Max: Fury Road. The movie didn't originally sound like one I would be into, but the reviews convinced me. Last night I went to go see it and pretty much my entire reaction is "!!!!!"
Let me tell you that every single complimentary thing you have ever heard about that movie is completely true. I was absolutely blown away. What a quality movie. What a good everything. I think it's one of the genuinely best movies I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in theatre.
I don't even know where to start, because there's so much to say.
So I think I'm not even going to try to talk about ALL the things I appreciated because if I did that I'd be here all day and still have things I hadn't yet figured out how to say coherently. I will just write a list ten items long of some things I have to say about this movie and for everything else you can go google for other people's reviews.
1. When they were all coming back to the Citadel to take it over, the crew consisted of: a whole bunch of elderly women, four traditionally beautiful young women, Imperator Furiosa, and two dudes. Like, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THAT GENDER RATIO. And all of the women had agency! And they were all interesting!
2. (can I just say that Imperator Furiosa is the most attractive person in this movie and would have a strong candidacy for being the most attractive person in any movie)
3. I cried buckets. I sobbed. The movie was so intense and I cared so much and I just. I just. I first started getting teary-eyed pretty much right at the beginning, at the bit where there's the whole crowd of people waiting hopefully and desperately for water and Immortan Joe sends down the waterfall but only briefly. I first started actually crying at the bit where they lose Angharad. I'm not sure when I first started sobbing but I was definitely sobbing by the bit where Furiosa learns what happened to the Green Place, and then I pretty much sobbed my way through the entire rest of the movie.
4. Everything about the interactions between Furiosa and Max, and the relationship they develop over the course of the movie. And like, I read it as 100% platonic, but weirdly (unlike, say, Mako-Raleigh where I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANY OTHER POSSIBILITY) I'm totally okay with the idea that other people might read it differently.
5. The cinematography was beautiful and the action was so well done as action and the pacing was great and the script was minimalist but good, and like, I have feelings about everything but also it's just a well put together movie.
6. What a group of wonderfully competent people who all RESPECT EACH OTHER'S COMPETENCE. (the shining moment of glory for this being, of course, the moment when Max hands over the gun to Furiosa when there's only one shot left because he knows she'll be able to make the shot and he can't.)
7. The worldbuilding!
8. When Max spent most of the movie with that bloodline carefully coiled up and buckled on as part of his gear, I was like "...that's so coming back somehow isn't it" AND THEN IT DID IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. Good work using Chekov's gun effectively, movie!
9. The role of the poleboys in the high-speed fighting really made me compare the whole thing to the era of naval battles on tall ships: the floor is lava, and you are trying to board the enemy conveyance to take it over (and kill them).
10. The themes of this movie are just so...yeah. Often with action movies I enjoy the movie overall but don't like the message the movie is conveying but with this one I was totally there for it. And I appreciate the heck out of that.
The only complaint I can currently come up with for this movie is that I still find Tom Hardy's lips/mouth distractingly weird-looking. I'm sorry Tom Hardy, I know your appearance is not your fault, but I found it hard to take Max seriously on any close-up of his face after the mask thing came off.
I'm currently trying to decide whether to convince my dad that he wants to see this movie, and go see it with him so I can bask in its amazingness again, or whether I want to never watch it again because that experience was way too intense.
Let me tell you that every single complimentary thing you have ever heard about that movie is completely true. I was absolutely blown away. What a quality movie. What a good everything. I think it's one of the genuinely best movies I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in theatre.
I don't even know where to start, because there's so much to say.
So I think I'm not even going to try to talk about ALL the things I appreciated because if I did that I'd be here all day and still have things I hadn't yet figured out how to say coherently. I will just write a list ten items long of some things I have to say about this movie and for everything else you can go google for other people's reviews.
1. When they were all coming back to the Citadel to take it over, the crew consisted of: a whole bunch of elderly women, four traditionally beautiful young women, Imperator Furiosa, and two dudes. Like, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THAT GENDER RATIO. And all of the women had agency! And they were all interesting!
2. (can I just say that Imperator Furiosa is the most attractive person in this movie and would have a strong candidacy for being the most attractive person in any movie)
3. I cried buckets. I sobbed. The movie was so intense and I cared so much and I just. I just. I first started getting teary-eyed pretty much right at the beginning, at the bit where there's the whole crowd of people waiting hopefully and desperately for water and Immortan Joe sends down the waterfall but only briefly. I first started actually crying at the bit where they lose Angharad. I'm not sure when I first started sobbing but I was definitely sobbing by the bit where Furiosa learns what happened to the Green Place, and then I pretty much sobbed my way through the entire rest of the movie.
4. Everything about the interactions between Furiosa and Max, and the relationship they develop over the course of the movie. And like, I read it as 100% platonic, but weirdly (unlike, say, Mako-Raleigh where I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANY OTHER POSSIBILITY) I'm totally okay with the idea that other people might read it differently.
5. The cinematography was beautiful and the action was so well done as action and the pacing was great and the script was minimalist but good, and like, I have feelings about everything but also it's just a well put together movie.
6. What a group of wonderfully competent people who all RESPECT EACH OTHER'S COMPETENCE. (the shining moment of glory for this being, of course, the moment when Max hands over the gun to Furiosa when there's only one shot left because he knows she'll be able to make the shot and he can't.)
7. The worldbuilding!
8. When Max spent most of the movie with that bloodline carefully coiled up and buckled on as part of his gear, I was like "...that's so coming back somehow isn't it" AND THEN IT DID IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. Good work using Chekov's gun effectively, movie!
9. The role of the poleboys in the high-speed fighting really made me compare the whole thing to the era of naval battles on tall ships: the floor is lava, and you are trying to board the enemy conveyance to take it over (and kill them).
10. The themes of this movie are just so...yeah. Often with action movies I enjoy the movie overall but don't like the message the movie is conveying but with this one I was totally there for it. And I appreciate the heck out of that.
The only complaint I can currently come up with for this movie is that I still find Tom Hardy's lips/mouth distractingly weird-looking. I'm sorry Tom Hardy, I know your appearance is not your fault, but I found it hard to take Max seriously on any close-up of his face after the mask thing came off.
I'm currently trying to decide whether to convince my dad that he wants to see this movie, and go see it with him so I can bask in its amazingness again, or whether I want to never watch it again because that experience was way too intense.